Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-01-19
SCIENCE AND ART.

OVER SiS,OO0.OO0 has been expended on
monuments in Massachusetts since 1861.
IT is stated that there has been no In
stance Of the failure of oil 10 still troubled
waters when the oil used was vegetable
or fish oil
ACCoRDISd TO recent English expert
monts IL is found that "A growth Of ivy over
house renders ths interior entirely free
from moisture.
A SOLDERING fund, composed OF a tea
spoonful of chloride OF zinc dissolved in
two ounces of alcohol. will not rust anil
tarnish, and has no bad smell.
BOrANIsrs include in the grass family bar
Icy, wheat, oats, corn, rice, timothy, red
COP, blue grass. sugar cane. sorghum, etc.
Clover, the most valuable OF forage
plants. Is not grass, but a 10 gums.
1T has been clearly established that lead
pipes arc little affected by water IL con-
SANITY lille |, but readily affccte If alter
nateiy filed and cmptied. Unless always
fun, they arc not 1T for carrying drinking
water
TnE lowest average temperature known
in the world is observed at Werxnojaucl1,
Siberia. For 1885 it was degree Fahren-
he.t For January Of that year it was 81
degrees below, and the maximum coldns ss
was W GcBreC5 DcloW zero.
SILVER may b. dissolve in nitric acid,
aud again reduced to a m 'tIllic state by
adding copper after removing excess Of
moisture by evaporation. Gold can be dis
solved In warm nitrO-inur attic acid and il
may be recovered or reduced To a metallic
state by prccip;tating with cDpp,rAs and
then melting the prccipitLte in u cruciblc.
METAL-woRKERs are using the standard
Ill. -
split them in two on the edge, hollow them
out on the inside un ilamcrc shell remains,
and then thread them so tha: they screw
together. THIS is done so skillfully that
the alteration is not readily detected, and
can be discovered only by the lightncss OF
the coin.
1T is estimated that tho matter elected in
the volcanic eruption in New zealand
amounts TO 80 O0N.OD cubic yards. weigh
| ing 6OOO,uO 100 tpIs--nOt quite Il cubic mile
| but il would take more than the NatiOna
| debt OF England TO eXcavatc it. Ii would
take good workman l,OOOOOJ years I,
shovel il into carts, but it was all done il
| four hours
THE objection TO the use Of incan1csccn
| light in mines, that il gave no iudicai ion o
iirc-damp, has been removed by placinl
two togcthcr--ono a colorcd and the othe
! a clear light. a mercury contact, subJeC
10 the pressure from diffusion in an un
glazed porcelain pot, allows tho clear ligh
10 burn in gool atm sphere, but light
the cOlorcd one in fire II Im1.
Az apparatus Is advertised in Europe b,
which person is enabled To breathe the al
from without Will, sitting indoors Ia
warm room. 1t consist of u simple tube
communicating through the window witt
tn external ar, To one end of which al
attachment 4 lit over the mouth and nos
Is placSd. The inventor claims that, a
tuberclc bacilli are destroyed by Low
temperature, so pulmonary phthiSis my b.
cured by breathing frosty air through tn.
app rdtus.
IL is proposed in India 10 petition tn
state to turn over the three or four hun
drCd criminals annually condemned 4
de eth 10 an authorized medical commission
Tor the purposes of expcrim cntatiOn, pr
narily with tho view 10 determine tn
trdnsmiSsbility OF cholera from one man I
another. As the subjects of the experiment.
II they escape the disease, are TO receive
fell pardon, IL is supposed that they vii
will Ugly submit thcms Ives TO pre-
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